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[Suhse]

Route:

Tim started a paper route.  Pronunciation: root

Tim and his Dad have to route cables behind the computers station.

Pronunciation: rout

Agree?

Fun, no credit class for work, today.  All about the sometimes craziness of the English language.  

[chickenbutt]

Hi!   I would disagree.   I would pronounce both words 'rout'.

[MyGirlsMom]

I pronounce the two words the same as you do @Suhse.

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[SilleeMee]

I always say R-OUT.  When I hear R-OOT,  I think of something that grows in the ground.

[Bri21]

I say paper route with the "ow" sound.   

To me, they pronounciations are preference.  

[JaneMarple]

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@Suhse wrote:

Route:

Tim started a paper route.  Pronunciation: root

Tim and his Dad have to route cables behind the computers station.

Pronunciation: rout

Agree?

Fun, no credit class for work, today.  All about the sometimes craziness of the English language.  

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I agree with you.

My family and people in New England pronounce "Aunt" as on. While a great deal of the US pronounce it as "ant".

[chickenbutt]

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Bri21 wrote:

I saw paper route with the "ow" sound.   

To me, they pronounciations are preference.  

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ITA about preference.   Some things are just regionally pronounced differently.    I always saw both iterations of that word pronounced the same, but I cannot say that everybody should.  

[Marp]

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@JaneMarple wrote:

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@Suhse wrote:

Route:

Tim started a paper route.  Pronunciation: root

Tim and his Dad have to route cables behind the computers station.

Pronunciation: rout

Agree?

Fun, no credit class for work, today.  All about the sometimes craziness of the English language.  

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I agree with you.

My family and people in New England pronounce "Aunt" as on. While a great deal of the US pronounce it as "ant".

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I was raised in New York State and Connecticut and my parent's female siblings were "ants".

[Oznell]

I enjoy stuff like this.  One of the things I love is that hubby pronounces it "rout" to rhyme with "shout" in both instances.

He also frequently says "roof" in which the "oo" sound is like book, not tooth.

I am thinking it is a Midwestern thing-- hubs is from Illinois.

Hugh Beaumont, the actor who played "Ward Cleaver" also said "roof" that way.  I think of it as a boyish, Midwestern, Tom Sawyer-charming accent.

I have a more generalized Great Lakes accent, in which we always said a "long o" (is that the proper term?) roof and route.

[Preds]

I did a paper rowt and pull weeds to get to their roots.   I have taken Rowts to get where I needed to go.